The Dog in Health and Disease: Comprising the Various Modes of Breaking and Using Him for Hunting, Coursing, Shooting, Etc., and Including the Points Or Characteristics of Toy DogsLongmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1872 - 470 páginas |
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... give Mr. Bell's reasons for thinking that the dog is descended from the wolf , which are as follows : - 66 In order to come to any rational conclusion on this head , it will be necessary to ascertain to what type the animal approaches ...
... give Mr. Bell's reasons for thinking that the dog is descended from the wolf , which are as follows : - 66 In order to come to any rational conclusion on this head , it will be necessary to ascertain to what type the animal approaches ...
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... gives the following description of Buskar , a celebrated deerhound belonging to Captain McNeill of Colonsay , viz .: height , 28 inches ; girth round the chest , 32 inches ; running weight , 85 lbs . ; colour ROUGH SCOTCH GREYHOUND AND ...
... gives the following description of Buskar , a celebrated deerhound belonging to Captain McNeill of Colonsay , viz .: height , 28 inches ; girth round the chest , 32 inches ; running weight , 85 lbs . ; colour ROUGH SCOTCH GREYHOUND AND ...
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... gives courage and cleverness , but leads to such a rapid acquirement of knowledge relative to the wiles practised by the hare , as to make the dog possessing it soon useless for anything but killing his game , which he is often able to ...
... gives courage and cleverness , but leads to such a rapid acquirement of knowledge relative to the wiles practised by the hare , as to make the dog possessing it soon useless for anything but killing his game , which he is often able to ...
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... gives great power in turning , so that it is a very es- sential point , and upon the size of it the squareness mainly depends . Without width of hip no back can be strong , since the muscles have no possibility of attachment in ...
... gives great power in turning , so that it is a very es- sential point , and upon the size of it the squareness mainly depends . Without width of hip no back can be strong , since the muscles have no possibility of attachment in ...
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... give rise to the blue brindle ; or sometimes we see the black or blue - tanned colour , as we meet with commonly enough in the setter , spaniel , and terrier . Mr. Thacker was of opinion , with some of the early writers on the greyhound ...
... give rise to the blue brindle ; or sometimes we see the black or blue - tanned colour , as we meet with commonly enough in the setter , spaniel , and terrier . Mr. Thacker was of opinion , with some of the early writers on the greyhound ...
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Página 7 - ... dogs in general, more than the different kinds of dogs do from each other. The cranium is absolutely similar, and so are all, or nearly all, the other essential parts ; and to strengthen still further the probability of their identity, the dog and wolf will readily breed together, and their progeny is fertile. The obliquity of the position of the eyes in the wolf is one of the characters in which it differs from the...
Página 59 - ... he has much to undergo, and should have strength proportioned to it. - Let his legs be straight as arrows; his feet round, and not too large; his shoulders back; his breast rather wide than narrow; his chest deep; his back broad; his head small; his neck thin; his tail thick and brushy: if he carry it well, so much the better...